An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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